Applications are invited for a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post is offered at 6PAs.

We are keen to appointenthusiastic, dynamic, and motivated consultants to our forward-thinking team that prides itselfon providing high quality respiratory care across a comprehensive range of respiratory services.

The Trust is one of a small number of hospitals nationally confirmed to be in an early phase of the national New Hospital Build Programme. This will result in the acute hospital on the Leighton site being completely rebuilt and operational by 2031, providing fantastic opportunities for development and transformation of elective and acute surgical services at MCHFT.

The successful applicant must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold aLicence to Practise. The applicant must also be on the Specialist Register or be within sixmonths of obtaining their Certificate of Completion of Training in Respiratoty Medicine.

It is expected that the post holder will contribute to the leadership, delivery, and developmentof our future Respiratory services at Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust (MCHFT) aswell as the exciting New Hospital Program that is in development at the current LeightonHospital site.There is an opportunity to develop, progress and deliver sub-specialty services for RespiratoryMedicine in all these areas:

o Respiratory Physician specialising in Pulmonary Oncologyo Interstitial Lung Diseaseo Sleep and Ventilationo Tuberculosis and Complex infectionso Severe Asthma and Airways Disease, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff.

A wide range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust became a strategic partner in Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester 'places' and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership, caring for a population of over 2.7million.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its 'Be Safe Be EquiPPEd' campaign.Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been included in the Government's 'New Hospital Programme' to replace the current estate and enable the transformation of healthcare for our community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.